ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+1


 * Topic**: Family

RI.K.1---With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RF.K.1d---Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. RF.K.2a---Recognize and produce rhyming words. SL.K.2---Confirm understanding of text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details an requesting clarification if something is not understood. L.K.5c---Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
 * Common Core Standards:**


 * Suggested Student Objectives:**
 * Listen for how a story is read with expression.
 * Recognize and produce rhyming words.
 * Recite the alphabet.
 * Preview letters K, L, M, N, and O.
 * Differentiate single sounds.

Annie Rose Is My Little Sister, by Shirley Hughes Black Is Brown Is Tan, by Arnold Adoff The Family Book, by Todd Parr Jamaica Tag-Along, by Juanita Havill On Mother’s Lap, by Ann Herbert Scott
 * Suggested Additional Readings:**


 * Resource Links:**
 * [|Family Website]**
 * [|Perfectly Pre-School]**
 * [|Family Tree]**
 * [|Different Types of Families--Movies]**

1. Me and My Family __Materials:__ A note sent home to parents. __Description:__ Send a note home to the parents at least 1 week before you plan to begin sharing the posters, pictures, etc. Ask the parents to help their children put together a poster or a collage of family pictures for the children to share with the class.
 * Activities:**

2. Me Dolls __Materials__: Poster board and a note sent home to parents. __Description:__ Trace on a 8 by 10 poster board, a pattern of a person that looks like a gingerbread man. This is a take home activity that the child is to do with his or her parents or family member. Send a note home asking the parents to decorate the doll to make it look like the child. You can use anything you would like. Some suggestions are rice, noodles, ribbon, sprinkles, buttons, crayons, markers, glitter, cereal, or anything in the kitchen. Ask the parent to work with the child to decorate the "me doll" and send it back with the child to school. The dolls will be sent home later on in the year. When the child brings back the doll have a special time each day for the child to get up in front of the class with the teacher and tell how they made the doll and with who.

3. Family Handprints Craft

__Materials:__
 * paper
 * pencil
 * scissors

__Description:__
 * trace the child's hand
 * cut out the handprint
 * In the center, write "My //family// is special because..."

1. Children will be able to name all the members of their family.
 * Assessments:**

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